tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 28 22:20:18 1998
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Re: mathematics
tu'wI' jang Qermaq:
>Decimal point is <vI'> (KGT). How it's used is not something I'm sure of,
>but it's probably similar to how coordinates are used. <wej vI' wa' loS wa'
>vagh Hut> is pi to 5 decimal places.
It is used on Skybox card S33: "Cloaking Device" {So'wI'}.
{HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu'.}
Unfortunately, this and the previous sentence are not translated. But
it's obviously using Stardate 9521.6 as a time reference. It might or
might not be relevant, but this is spoken in English as "nine five two
one point six", not "nine thousand five hundred twenty-one point six."
The Klingon parallels this usage.
>Fractions - we have <bID> = half (n), but we've never seen it used in
>canon. I suspect it would be like <latlh>. <be'pu' chaH bID SuvwI''e'> is
>probably "Half the warriors are women." Whether there are words for "third",
>"quarter", etc. is unknown. The fraction words are mostly identical to the
>ordinals in English, but this is unlikely in Klingon. You could say <pagh
>vI' cha' vagh> for "one-fourth", but there's probably a better way we
>haven't learned.
We *have* seen a better way. Star Trek VI: {cha'maH vagh vatlhvI' Hong}
"one quarter impulse power" -- literally "twenty-five percent."
-- ghunchu'wI'